Agora Object: S 340
Inventory Number:   S 340
Section Number:   Θ 1053
Title:   Statuette of Mother of the Gods
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Hacked at the back and on the lower surface; head gone. Entire surface rather damaged.
The woman, Kybele, is represented seated on a high-backed throne with her feet on a footstool. Her right arm rests on the arm of the throne and holds some object the greater part of which has been broken away. In her left is a large tympanon, on her lap a small lion. She is dressed in a high girt chiton and a himation, which covers her left shoulder and her body as far as the knees, leaving her right shoulder free. Her hair hangs down over her shoulders.
Pentelic marble
Context:   Trench M (18-36/ΙΕ-ΚΑ), in a Byzantine wall.
Negatives:   Leica, 3-157, 80-692, 80-693, 80-694, 97-12-24
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.132; W. 0.085; Th. 0.07
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   19 April 1933
Section:   Θ
Grid:   Θ:22/ΙΘ
Bibliography:   Hesperia 4 (1935), p. 401, fig. 27.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 4 (1935)
Images (8)
Card: S 340